GrabCAD Makes Techstars Boston (After Winning Seedcamp London)
GrabCAD, the Estonian company that has created a CAD drawing sharing service for engineers, has been accepted to participate in Techstars Boston program. What makes this all noteworthy is for the following two reasons. According to our knowledge, no Northern European company has been accepted to any US based Techstars program and secondly, especially not after winning Seedcamp London earlier this year.
Has The Next Bubble Arrived?
A month ago, a Finnish newspaper interviewed me and asked are we living a bubble due to the high valuations of startups. Back then, I said no. Today, I'm not so sure anymore. My statement in that interview still stands true though on one part - there's no bubble in Northern Europe for sure, but I can't fully agree with regards to the US anymore. First, let me define a bubble in this case by stating it's an economic cycle where companies' valuations are highly inflated compared to a situation when calculated by business potential and metrics at large.
Dropbox's Y-Combinator Application - Read&Learn
I came across Drew Houston's Y-Combinator application from a tweet by Dave Winer. He linked to a document online, where Drew Houston's Y-Combinator application lie in all its glory for anyone to read. Drew Houston is the founder behind Dropbox, the file-sharing service used by millions of individuals and professionals. We use it ArcticStartup and find it extremely useful.
Your Product Needs a Soul
The marketplace is crowded with products with no soul. I've always wondered who creates the masses of these terrible products and why they don't they fix them: startups that run for months or years with horrible user experience.
It just seems that with a little bit of effort it could've been much better. In today's world, you actually might need that extra effort.
